Until recently, I strove to make my writings apolitical because I teach Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) courses focused on LGBTQ+ issues as a freelancer. Not wanting to alienate potential clients, I have always concentrated on the science of queer topics and interpersonal interactions. …

I see your “Let’s Go Brandon” shirt and know you want me dead. Some will call the title of this piece a provocative statement. Others will think, “hell, yeah!” because they believe that I am saying that I have some great animosity toward Trump supporters. OK, maybe a little animosity but not to the point that I would make a blanket statement banning…

I haven’t been writing much for the last couple of years. I once tried to put out an article a week, but my health took a turn for the worse in 2020, and no, it has nothing to do with COVID-19. Around the same time that my daughter was diagnosed…

There is a phenomenon that most people are unaware of; Facebook will ban you for reporting someone for making inappropriate comments. You think that’s not how it works? Well, you must not be trans. I know some people are going to say that it isn’t true. They’re going to say…

Some definitions before the story: Enable: to make able; give power, means, competence, or ability to: to make possible or easy: Encourage: to inspire with courage, spirit, or confidence: to stimulate by assistance, approval, etc.: Enable is more passive. In the case of online criminality, it would be merely providing…

The summer after my senior year of high school, I boarded a bus that took me to a plane that took me to the Recruit In-Processing Facility Orlando, otherwise known as Navy World, otherwise known as the now-closed Navy boot camp. The first step in my planned career in the…

Thought on The Inauguration An Irish Catholic man and his wife who holds a doctorate in Education. A woman of African and Indian decent and her Jewish husband who don't share a last name. A new cabinet secretary and his husband. A Black woman fire fighter labor leader leading and…

Last week, a mob, a riot, an insurgency of right-wingnuts urged on by our traitorous president and sycophantic members of Congress attacked the Capitol Building of the United States of America. They bloodied and killed police, well, they bloodied the police who weren’t holding the doors for them or taking…

I told you about my fan theory about The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher in my last entry. Tarot cards and all that. I offer that as proof that I am indeed a fan of the book series. I’ve been reading it for years. I’ve reread the whole series multiple…